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TUlAliGLS, TUESDAY. MiKCH li 1892. Highest of all in Leavening Power. Latest U. S. Gov't Report - t ,' - J v. mm ABSOUUTEW PURE THE LAAV IS VALID. ev line stunue HUouia never oe aeciarea n:- oHTativ in all its parts txM aue a particular part relating to a tlitiiic-t subject uiay be iu vali'L A ditlereut rule mi(bt be disastrous to K fli.nn,.inl ..n..vl...... nf tl.u Aivurnmkiit The Supreme Court's View Of and .iroduce the utmost confusion iu the busi ness 01 lue euiirv l-ouniry. of the McKinley Act. BATCH OF IMPORTANT DECISIONS. TOM REED CAN CROW NOW. ETerjr Objection Against the Tariff Law . Set Anl.le lteeiprocity and the Sugar ltounty SuKtuiued Also Iteed's Count ing of a Ouorum The Sayward Case Decided Against England S-hwab and Joseph & Co., apjealcil from the Xew Klelden Lose Their Lai;t Hope Itarbed York circuit court. This case involved The llight to Count a Ouorum Sustained Viiaiuiiioiisly. The power of the speuker of t ho house to ct lint a quorum, as was done in the Fift -first congress, was unanimously affirmed by the court in an opinion in tin case of the United States vs. Ballin, Contract Labor the v ilidity of the law passed May 9, 1S!1, land known as the Worsted Classification Wire Patent. I'plield Opinion. Washington-, March 1. The supreme court- reconvened yesterday for spring ses sion. Along list of unusually important and interesting cases was disposed of and the attendance of attorneys was large, among them being Attorney General Miller, General B. F. Butler, ex-Secretary turs t enact any nil Boutwell, 'Senators Davis and Kenna, Solictor General Taft and e.x-Kepresenta-tive Payson. So far as the Amerieau people are concerned probably the moat important of the decisions was that on the validity of the McKinley tariff law. This was in the case of Marshall Field & Co., of Chicago; R. M. Boyd, et al., and Charles Steruback et al. of New York, vs. the United States. The opinion was delivered by Justice Harlan. Kxplunnf ion of the Ca.e. Duties were assessed on various articles Imported by the appellants under the Mc Kinley bill, and they protested against payirg them on the ground that the act was not the law of the United States for j the reason that section thirty of the act as it passed loth houses and was agreed to in conference was omitted from the enrolled bill signed by the presiding officers of the two houses and by the president, and that therefore it did not comply with the re quirements of the constitution. This was the first time the question was presented to the court, and the justice saiil it receiv ed the consideration it deserved. Complete Authentication Defined. After referring to the constitutional re quirements respecting the passage of a bill and the proceedings of congress, the court says: The Mtniiug by the speaker of the house of representatives and by the president of the enate in ojen session of an enrolled bill is an official attestation by the two houses of nch a bill as one that has paswd conuress. and when , a bill thus attested receives his ( the presi dent's) apiroal and is deposited in the public! archives, its authentication, as a bill that has passed congress, should le deemed complete and unimpeachable. i Contention of the Appellant. I It is admitted that an enrolled act thus au thenticated is suffliie t evidence of ito!f nothing to the contrary appearing upon its face that it passed conmrss. Hut the contention is that it cannot ho regarded as a law of tho United States f the journal of either house fails to hmv that it passed in the precise form act. When it was liefore the house for action 138 votes were recorded for the pas sage f the bill, w hereupon the speaker proceeded to make a quorum by counting seven' y-four representatives present, but not voting. The decision says: It is within the competency of the lenisla- not forbidden by the constitution or aifaiiw natural justieo to secure the prescm-e of a quorum, and wluvi that q loruiu is present it is there for the pur pose of doiiiK business. A tu the Act Itself. As to the meaning of the act, Justic.i Brewer said it was a general in struct! m to the secretary of the treasury to classify as worsted goods nil imported woolen goods, mid that he was not requir ed in every particular case of importation to maka the change by special order. The I conclusion of the court is that the act was j legally passed; and that by its own terms and irrespective of any action by the sec retary f the treasury the duties on worst ed clot is were to be such as were placed by the act of ls-Sl on woolen cloths. DECIDED THE SAYWARD CASE. Vncle Sam Wins Barbed-Wire Patents That English Hector. The Sayward case was decided in favoi of the U iited States. The Sayward was seized filty-nine miles from land iu Behr lng sea v hik killing seals in violation ot United States law. The vessel was con demned to be sold by the district court in Alaska, and its owners, who really repre sented the British government, asked lor a writ of prohibition to prevent the sale. The United States claimed that the su preme court did not have jurisdiction be cause the question was a political one, but on this pciut the court decided in favor of the British contention. The writ of pro hibition v.iis, however, denied. Means Life Imprisonment for Them. Fieldeii and Schwab, the Chicago anar chists, must stay in prison for life, so says the supreme court. The claim of the ap pellants v as that in deciding an appe.il the suprt me court of Illinois had not called the prisoners personally before it to pass judgment, they being at Chicago in jail at the time the decision against them was rendered. The supreme court s.ysi that the provision of law requiring the prisoners to be in court personally when sentenced refers entirely to the court of jn wnien it was sit;nei uy the presiding oiticers original jurisdiction and the prisoners ap- oi ine two uoust s and approvxi by the pr. si- peal is denied, dent. It is Mud that, under any other view, it t Itarbed Wl becomes jio-sil lc for the speaker of the hou of representatives and the president of the sen ate to impose upon the people as a law a b 11 that was never passed by congress. Too l;cluote a Possibility. But this possibility is too remote to le seri ously considered in the present inquiry. It suggests a deliberate conspiracy to which the presiding officers, the i-ommittces on enrolled bills, and the clerks of the two houses must necessarily be parties, all acting with a com mon purpose to defeat an expression of the pop. nlarwill iu the mods prescribed by the con stitution. Judicial action based up in such a suggestion U forbidden by the respect due to a coordinate branch of the government. C hose the Least of Two Evils. The evils that may result from the recogni tion of the principle that an enrolled act in the custody of the secretary of state, attested by the signature of the presiding officers of the two houses of congress and the approval of the president, is conclusive evidence that it as passed by congress according to the forms of the constitution, would be far less than those that would certainly result from a rule mak ing the vulidity of congressional enactments depend upon the manner in which the journals ot the respective houses are kept by the sub ordinate officers charged with the duty of keeping them. RECIPROCITY SECTION ALSO VALID. re Patents Valid. The W.isliborti-Moon manufacturing company g lined a voctury before the court in cases sei t from the northern Iowa cir cuit court which had derided against the validity ol patents on barlied wire for fences held by the company. It was claim ed that the patents contained no new principle aiid were not novel. The supreme court decides thutalthoughsouiethinglike, these pateirs many have lieen used before these had been failures, while the inven tion of the Washboru-Moen patents had made a success. Clergymen Not Contract Laborers. Some tim ago the circuit court of New York lined the vestry of Trinity church, New York, ami Kev. Mr. Warren, an Kuglish clergyman, $1,000 for violating Cue alien labor contract law, holding that under that law Mr. Warren was a laborer anil the con met with him having been made prior to his dearture from Knglaud it was in violation of that law. The supreme court says that the decision may be agreeable to the letter of the law, but not to its s;irit, and therefore the lower court's judgment is reversed. The Michigan Railway Law. A case involving the Michigan railway law of 18s!) -egulating rates or railwnvs was decided ii favor of the validity of the law, the decision being based on the fact apparently that the evidence for the rail way company was not competent, as it re- The Power Given the President Therein ot at All a New Thing. The opinion closes the consideration of the foregoing contention by declaring that it is not competent for the appellants to ferred entirely to freight rates, while those nhow from the journals of either house ( were not " ioned in the original case, that the bill when passed contained a see- T1,e 1 """dary of a State, tion that does not appear in the enrolled ' . In ,the cas'- of, Nebraska vs. Iowa, a act. The second contention is then taken I '""T' dec,s,on rendered to up, which is that the third section of the th? eff.ect V,"" the Cntf ,f the ,Ter ?ua," law, known as the reciprocity section, is ?.u1' wh"n tbe f.,ver. ,a xe. unitary, is the unconstitutional as delegating legislative lln-. nu? J" to changes re power to the president; and being an essen- f.uR!n .fro,u 1 he iug t'us of tial part of the system established by the 10 tMaKX act the entire act must be declared null GREAT STRIKE OF MINERS! . and void. Numerous acts are cited to show I that the authority conferred upon the pres-. It Will luvolvo a Million Persons He fore ident by the third section is not a new feature in the legislation of congress. It is not inconsistent with the principle that It is Over. IjOXDox, Ma:-ch 1. Coal has advanced As 1V1 n ton iinr. the rlretincr nf the m;irl..it congress can uoi. ueiegate legislative power on Saturday in view of the impending to the president, for it does not in any real If . , , sense invest the president with the power j ol legislation. Executing, not Making, Law. What, the president was required to do was sliuply in execution of the act of congress... It was not the making of law. The court is of opinion concluded Justice Harlan on this point that the third section of the act is not liable to the objection that it transfers legislative power to the president. Even if it were, it would not, by any means, follow that other parts of the net, those which Imposed duties upon articles Imported, would be inoperative. The Sugar Bounty Clause. The third contention of appellants was that -the sugar bounty provision was un constitutional, and the whole act there fore void. Without going iuto the ques tion of the constitutionality of the pro vision, the court says the different parts of the act, in respect of their operation, have no legal connection whatever with each other. The opinion concludes: L'nleas it be imposiahle to avoid it a general strike of miners. It is expected that at least 1,000,0(10 ii en will lie involved in the movement. Er iployers and employed are in some instanc s acting together to bring about a suspen sion of production so as to compel the railways, gas companies, and factories to give better price.syfor coal. Split Talked of in the Amalgamated. AVheelino, W. Va., Mnrch 1. There is a movement on :'oot here among the pud dlers and rollers of tbe Amalgamated Asso ciation of Iron and Steel Workers to with draw from the Amalgamated association and re-organize the order of Sons of Vul can, to whicn th puddlers and rollers be longed before H7t. The leaders of the movement clain that nine-tenths of the puddlers in the Ohio valley between Pitts burg and Ciucin mti are dissatisfied with the Amalgamated and are anxious to leave it. Early action will probably be taken. About 10.000 men will be affected bv the secession PtJCEY'S DEFENSE. The Priest Replies to Secretary Blaine's Letter. HE CLAIMS COEBIGAN'S APPE0VAL. The Archbishop However, Puts In a De murrer and Intimates that the Priest Is Not ' Toting Fair" Mrs. Nevius Mas Day In Court and Makes Some Robust llemarks Comment at Washington The Divorcee to Reply Later. NEW (irk, March 1. Rev. Thomn-j Ducey, pastor of St. Leo's Roman Cat -. lie church, whom Secretary Blaine in hts statement criticises for having married James Blaine, Jr., and Marie Xevins, left town yesterday. Before he went away he hud something to say i:i reply to Mr. Blaine. ''Mr. Blaine says I transgressed my preistly duty in marrying his son," said Father Ducey. "What I did I did with the knowledge and approval of Arch bishop Corrigan. The dispensation was ob tained from the archbishop, who knew nil the circumstances. Mr. Blaine's sou told me he was 21 years old. Mr. Blaine should prefer his complaint to the archbishop, uoi to me. The Archbishop's Disclaim. Archbishop Corrigan delegated his sec retary, .Mgr. McDonnell, to retilv to T...l . , . - . ... ' t nioer jjucey s statement. 1 am sur prised," said Mgr. McDonnell, "that Father Ducey tries to shield himself by drawin the archbishop iuto the matter. All that the archbishop had to do with the mar riage wasto issue the dispensation. Father Ducey came to the archbishop's house with young Mr. Blaine and Miss Xevins. lie explained the situation. As the young woman was a tat none and the. young man was not a Catholic and the couple wisneu to tie married ny a catholic priest a dispensation was necessary. Tried to Dissuade the Connie. "The archbishop was reluctant to grant a dispensation. He talked to the. young couple for more than an hour, but he could not dissuade them from their purpose. The young man said that as he lacked but a few weeks of being 21 there could be no objection on the score of age. The arch bishop told young Blaine that on account of the conspicuous position of his father lie should be careful not to do anything that might interfere with his father s plans. The young man was persistent, and on Father Ducey's recommendation the dis pensation was granted. The I'riest Wholly Responsible. 'It should be understood that the arch bishop's part was simply to grant permis sion to Mr. Blaine and Miss Xevins to be married by a Catholic priest. It was the duty of the priest who performed the cere niony to ascertnin if there were anv ob stacles to the marriage.'' He further said that Mr. Blaine expressed himself satisfied with the archbishop's course. MARIE'S MOTHER TO THE RESCUE, ol Mrs. Ncvlns Charges the Secret iry State with Lying. Nkw i i:k, March 1. Mrs. Xevins, the mother of Marie Xevins-Blaine, was seen yesterday in reference to the statement sent out by Secretary of State Blaine. Mrs. Nevins said: "Secretary Blnine's statement is at tissue of lies from end to end. land my daughter will prove that to the world before we are through with it. His story of our interview with Mrs. Blaine is largely manufactured out of the whole cloth. 1 will tell vou exactly what took place. I accompanied my daughter to the house. I he nurse and the child were with us. We were shown into tin drawing room. Mrs. Blaine came in. We all bowed and proceeded at once to busi ness. Not Allowed to See .lames, .Ir. "Marie asked to see her husband. Mrs. Blaine said she could not see him. She insisted upon the nurse leaving the room. She said she would not discuss the matter before a servant. The nurse and little Jim went to the kitchen. We contintud to talk matters over for some time. Ail three of us were perfectly cool. Nil Blaine said when Marie spoke of Coii.g away again. 'Well, you can leave your baby Here it you want to.' If Marie had been some poor outcast whom Jim Blaine had seduced Mrs. Blaine could not have spoken in a more brutal manner. I spoke up tor .Mane: "lhey have Intth done wrong, Mrs. Blain", in marrying without our consent.' A moment or two later she turned to my daughter and said in an extremely significant sort of way: 'Well. your marriage was all wrong any way. -Marie. Ordered "These Persons" Shown Out, "Then I protested. Mrs. Blaine immedi ately flew into a fury. She almost foamed at t he mouth. She rang a liell, and a serv ant appeared with surprising speed. If it had been my servant I should certainly have accused her of eavesdropping. 'Show these persons out,' cried Mrs. Blaine, and then she added: 'And watch them.' We walked out and called the nurse and little Jim. At the door of the carriage the nur?e, who was crying out of sympathy for Marie, said: 'Mrs. Blaine, you're a goose to go away like this. You're his wife. Go right up to his room. Xo one has a right to stop you.' Marie went hack into the house. I stayed in the carriage. Then it was that the scene took place." Talk at the National Capital. Washington, March 1. The most sig nificant thing iu Bl aiue's letter, it is thought here, is his denunciation of Father Ducey for marrying his sou under the cir cumstances. Universal surprise is ex pressed that Blaine should attack a promi nent Roman Catholic iu such scathing language as he uses in his letter. Among those who have read the letter the opinion is ex pressed that had Jlr. Blaine not given up all thought of being a presidential candi date he would not have dared to raise a conflict between himself and that portion of the Catholic church that would defend action of Father Ducey. The Divorcee Sends for a Paper. Siorx Falls, S. D., March l. Marie Xevins-Blaine was too ill yesterday to be seen, but as soon as she heard of Secretary Blaine's letter she sent for a newspaper and announced through her attorney that as soon as possible she will reply. Took Poison by Accident. Gosh ex, Iud., March 1. Mrs. James Friend, who lived near La Grange, died Suuday from the effects of some powertul drug self-administered, but probably not with suicidal intent. She was found by neighbors on the floor in convulsions, her little 10-month's-old baby amusing itself by trying to pet her face. She was uncon scious when found, and died shortly afterward. 1892. ; MflRGH. 1892. JSik Tik We. Tjr. Sa. .Hill 6 7 I J 10 I1 J1J1 J5 Jill J8 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 ABBREVIATED TELEGRAMS. An advance of from 3 to 4 cents in the prices of binding twine is announced from Minneapolis. Two young women near Padncah, Ky., were assaulted and severely beaten by a negro tramp. , Thomas McDanlel was called to the door of his home iu Indian territory and killed by an assassin. Xew York Republicans will hold their state convention April 23 to elect dele gates to Minneapolis. Mexican troops are in pursuit of an arm ed band of about hftv men who have taken refuge in the Potrillo moutains. A crazy shoemaker named Revell, living at Broadsworth, England, killed his four children by cutting their throats. Senator (lorman is announced a candi date for president by the paper owned by Senator Gibson, his colleague and particu lar friend. Congressman A. J. Hopkins has been summoned home on account of the ap proaching death of his aged father, at Cortland, 111. Poverty anil suffering among the unem ployed working classes in letina are daily increasing, and the condition there is be coming serious. Senator Sherman positively denies the report that, he is thinking of retiring to private life at the end of Harrison s ad ministration. Excitement was caused in Paris by tu explosion of dynamite in the doorway of the princess of Sagan, one of the residents in the Faubourg St. Germain; no one was injured. The agreement to arbitrate the Behring sea matter has been signed by Secretary Blaine and Minister Pauncefote, and re ceived the approval of Lord Salisbury. It still has to run the gantlet of the senate and parliament. Owing to the purchase of the stock of the Economic Gas company by the gas trust, at Cbicngo, the city council las de clared forfeited all the rights and privi leges granted the Economic company. Judge Allen, of the United States court at Springfield, III., has decided that the inter-state commerce law does nor apply to shipments from points in theLnited States to fi reign points. This is an im portant victory for the railways over the law. L. C. 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